Hello, first timer here. Because my linux O.S. has Synaptic as package manager, the distro I am using PCLinuxOS. has rpm-based package management and not deb-based as is normally assumed by PicoScope concerning Linux.But I read somewhere that also .rpm install files are available and I visited

https://labs.picotech.com/rpm/x86_64

and downloaded

picomono-2.10.8-1r02.x86_64.rpm

using terminal to install this, I navigated to the directory were I put the file and did :

Martyn wrote:All the rpm files are available from one level up PicoScope is noarch and the device drivers are in the directory you found our version of mono.

Thanks Martyn for your quick reply. But I do need some more help please.Yes, If I go to noarch I see the rpm files ( I think I need the last one)but in order to not stuck again can you please give me the appropriate steps to execute?For instance, I had problems with the terminal command for importing the public key especially after the pipe:| apt-key add -because PCLinuxOS bash did not recognize this command (complaint something about the hyphen -). Had to do a internet search to get it working (?) with | gpg --importbut I am still in doubt due to that mysterious comment given by bash after executing this command line.For the record my O.S. is KDE4-64bitThanks in advance.

At last, I almost gave up, I managed to get the PicoScope software installed on my PCLinuxOS MATE 64 bit computer and it looks like the demo is working although I am not that sure because I had several hangs during the fiddling with the demo ( I am waiting to purchase until I get the software running).Because "sudo" is not used in PCLinuxOS, I worked directly in Konsole from root.

First I made a directory /home/analogueman/PicoScope.Then worked from the command line in root.

The command line to add the repository to package manager Synaptic did not work on first run because bash returned complaining that "etc/yum.repos.d was not found".Then I tried to solve this by making that directory myself in /etc, and named it "yum.repos.d" (without quotes) and after the command

If have a last question here on this subject:When executing the " curl -o <........> http://labs.picotech.com/rpm/picoscope.repo "to add the picoscope repo to my package manager Synaptic, is it possible that one of the downloadedpackages, if not in my PCLinuxOS repo, be included there? It is my serious concern that, if so, it will break my system when picoscope replaces some of the packages therewhich can come in conflict.I had the opinion that the picoscope repo does not such a thing but I want to be sure.Hope I made myself clear enough.Thanks in advance for your response.